Comment by throwawayffffas
1 day ago
Listen I agree, but the solution to this problem is not social media mediated pseudo-anonymity the operators know who you are and they are working with them.
The solution is keeping fascists of the levers of power which America has done an incredibly bad job at for the last 10 years.
If you really want to have free speech, you need to be in your own domain and that is going to be increasingly dangerous as you have noted too. So you know I see antifa tor services run out of servers in Europe in your future.
I totally agree, the problem is difficult however because even if we create a perfectly anonymous system for registering with social media, modern LLMs make semantic analysis trivial. It's going to be impossible to remain anonymous without also using an LLM to strip the unique footprint of your text. Which leads to a very strange and monotonous culture for internet discussions. Might be unavoidable, though, at least for certain kinds of discussions.
Yes this is indeed a problem. But this is even more reason to keep private conversations private. It will stop those LLMs learning your footprint from your private conversations.
It's an interesting thing what you're saying. I've been thinking about this happening (I think it's inevitable) and also about using an LLM to sanitise my semantic footprint.
Yeah, it's been on my mind since the original transformers paper, because persona and identity management has been a long-time interest of mine. Both offensive and defensive tooling, such as fingerprinting and anti-fingerprinting.
If you're interested in building an open source persona management suite to distribute as freedom software and level the playing field against State agents who are already building and improving such tools, I would love to find a partner to help with such a project. Even if you don't code, there are other duties besides coding involved with successfully promoting such a project and developing a community around it.
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